As this chart from Campus Technology illustrates, the electronic device owned now by the most college students is the cell phone. Close behind is the laptop. The chart is from a Snapshot: Personal Electronic Devices Owned by Students. This look at what college kids are doing also reports that:
most students spend up to five hours a day on the Internet, with a fairly even distribution between personal and school use, and e-mail remains the most popular communication tool and the preferred method of contact for all school purposes.
As this chart from Campus Technology illustrates, the electronic device owned now by the most college students is the cell phone. Close behind is the laptop. The chart is from a Snapshot: Personal Electronic Devices Owned by Students. This look at what college kids are doing also reports that:
most students spend up to five hours [...]
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@ 10:49
As I read those numbers, the most owned device is a personal computer, not a cell phone. If you add the laptop and desktop numbers together, and subtract 30% for the students owning both, you get 98% own a computer, as compared to 97% with a cell phone.
However, 97% or 98% makes little difference, probably within the (unreported) margin of error of the poll. The real conclusion is that virtually every student has /both/ a cell phone and a computer. (I know my daughter and all her friends do.)
@ 13:50
It appears that 88% of students have some kind of PC, eh?
A student I know pointed out that “all” students have computers, but some don’t have cell phones. Why? You can’t turn in homework (or even do homework) without a computer. But he went to a school in an area with bad cell phone coverage.